Category: What’s On

This event organised by University of Portsmouth students may be of interest to CRaB members/followers: “Calls for the decolonization of the curriculum have become a global anthem amongst University students today. Perhaps the most profound movement of decolonization has been the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa. This movement galvanized students throughout the UK to ask; why is my curriculum white? More recently at SOAS and LSE calls for decolonization have helped catalyze protests and discussion. Our objective for this open Panel Q&A is to ask: what is decolonization? Is there a need to decolonize? What is missing from

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Call for papers: Citizenship Workshop – Citizenship and Identity European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group  The intersection between citizenship and identity: Contemporary processes of differentiation and exclusion Workshop 7-8 June 2017, University of Portsmouth DEADLINE: 3 April 2017 This workshop seeks to provide a critical context for theoretical and empirical examinations of the intersection between citizenship and identity. Observed as the dynamic bond between a sovereign political community and the individual, citizenship is expected to shape community-building processes. The significance of identity in these processes cannot be stressed enough – it is, only, by bringing citizenship and identity together that ‘imagined community’ can

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This talk examines the persistent reluctance of producers and shapers of screen culture to regulate images of ‘blackness’ for British audiences in a period of increased immigration from 1948 to 1978. Producers and regulators at a variety of organisations tasked with shaping screen culture in the period, including the BBC, ITV, the BBFC, and various film studios, were newly invested in imagining the responses of British audiences in the postwar period. These organisations, alongside NGOs such as the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association, constructed audiences as impressionable and fragile when it came to sexuality, class conflict, and politics on screen, but largely unaffected by negative representations of black and

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